Talk of the Town: Welcome to my world. I’ve been in disarray since learning that Mr. Rogers never said ‘It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood.’
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: No time for the monkey bars: Adulting is just a drag
Street Talk: Every kid who dreams of being a grown-up will eventually be cursed with that very thing.
Mark LaFlamme: Good times in the plumbing aisle
Talk of the Town takes on clogged drains, dry trains, bulky names and so much more.
Mark LaFlamme: James Earl Jones must hate the new baseball rules
Street Talk: Major League Baseball is tampering with tradition all over the place, and in a variety of perverse ways.
Mark LaFlamme: Old man Snodgrass and the rampaging bison
Talk of the Town ponders the beasts of Aroostook County, the revealing nature of Daylight Saving Time, the new 911 tone and so much more.
Mark LaFlamme: Lost ladies find their way home
Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should.
Mark LaFlamme: Menacing mollusks and mermaids in the muck
Talk of the Town goes where no unicorn, cat lady or canal mermaid have gone before. So clam down!
Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither
Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.
Mark LaFlamme: On UFOs, wilted roses and subterranean cannibal spiders
Lewiston relining 7 miles of sewer lines Welp, I hope these sewer workers have their affairs in order because we all know how this kind of thing goes in the movies. Once they’re down in those dank, pitch-black Hell portals they’re going to encounter a nest of man-eating spiders the size of pianos, a shuffling […]
Mark LaFlamme: Abused feline has found a home, wanted in another
Street Talk: For the cat named Harlow, the long road to recovery was just beginning. But for the young woman who rescued the animal, all that awaited was frustration.